ANSYS License Guidelines to Provide Access from Nimbix

First, you will need to open the ports below in order to allow access for the Nimbix ANSYS applications to reach your license server and check out licenses. These ports will need to be open through the VPN (if applicable) and through the actual machine that the license manager is hosted on.

Allow ports:

1055

2325

2326

27000

Next, the person that manages the license server will need to edit the actual license file so that we can take advantage of these ports. You’ll need to add “1055” to the very end of the “SERVER” line and “port=2326” to the end of the “DAEMON” line. It should look like below: (only add the lines in RED - do not change the other variables in either of these lines. If you do, then the license won’t work)

If you have an options file for your users, you’ll need to add user “nimbix” to that options file. All users on that use Nimbix to start a job will come across as user ‘nimbix’. This is something that cannot be changed, so user “nimbix” will need to be added in order for the license server to allow users to check out licenses.

Add user ‘nimbix’ to your options file

If you are hosting the license file and we are connecting to it through the internet through an external IP, you’ll need to have a file named ansyslmd.ini so that the license manager knows what it’s external IP is. The contents of the file will just be 1 line.

Add ansyslmd.ini if you are using an external IP address

Create a file named ‘ansyslmd.ini’ in the .../licensing/ directory

ansyslmd.ini contents should just include

ANSYSLI_EXTERNAL_IP=<IP ADDRESS>

In order for the changes in the license file to take effect, you’ll need to restart the license server.

Restart the license manager

If you have any questions, please reach out to support@nimbix.net and we’ll be happy to help.